Wonderfest: Starship Reality-Check

The stars beckon. But humans evolved on Earth, not to hurtle through space. For long-duration travel - interplanetary and, even, interstellar - what spacecraft accomodations are necessary? Is on-board human hibernation an option? Might we overcome the problems of space radiation and prolonged weightlessness? Finally, scientists may argue that the ideal craft for fast human interstellar travel is the constantly-accelerating "1-g starship," but what do engineers say?

Speakers: Pascal Lee, SETI Institute and Mars Institute; Tucker Hiatt, Wonderfest